West African Women Entrepreneurs in a Glocal World
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This book considers these micro-level instances of entrepreneurship, as well as cases of more established high-status entrepreneurs, to build a picture of women entrepreneurs in West African societies, and their wider role in socio-economic development. Small and medium enterprises are seen as agents of change in the global south, vital for job creation and poverty reduction, but women often face barriers which hinder their entrepreneurial success, such as lack of funding, useful networks, or inhibitive gender stereotypes. This book highlights cases of gender and economic success, to demonstrate the significant potential of the female economy to generate progress and change.
This book will be an important read for students and researchers of entrepreneurship, business, gender, development, and economic sociology in Africa.
Ulrike Schuerkens studied at the Universities of Cologne (Germany) and Rennes (France). She has doctorates in both sociology, and social anthropology and ethnology, from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She received the diploma Habilitation à diriger des recherches from the University Paris V – René Descartes. Currently, she is a professor of sociology at the University Rennes 2, France. She taught in the master and PhD programme of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. She also taught as a lecturer at the University Lille 3 (France) and Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany). She was a visiting professor at the Universities Paris 1 and Paris V, the University of Cologne (Germany), Rouen Business School, Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar (Senegal) and others. Ulrike Schuerkens has served for many years in different functions as a member of the board of the Research Committee on Social Transformations and Sociology of Development, RC 09 of the International Sociological Association. She is on the editorial board of several international journals. She has published extensively on globalization, glocalisation, socio-economic development, social change, transnational migrations, multiculturalism, and colonialism. Her latest monographs are Entreprises, entrepreneurs et travail au Sénégal, Pour une sociologie du management en Afrique et dans le monde arabe, Social Changes in a Global World, Soziale Transformationen und Entwicklung(en) in einer globalisierten Welt, Global Management, Local Resistances (ed., Routledge, 2014), The socio-economic Outcomes of the Global Financial Crisis (ed., Routledge, 2012), Globalization and Transformations of Social Inequality (ed., Routledge, 2010), Globalization and Transformations of Local Socio-Economic Practices (ed., Routledge, 2008), Transnational Migrations and Social Transformations, Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds: Social Transformations, Changement social sous régime colonial: Du Togo allemand aux Togo et Ghana indépendants, Transformationsprozesse in der Elfenbeinkueste und in Ghana.
List of Tables
List of Figures
About the Editor
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Introduction: West African Women Entrepreneurs in a Glocal World
0 Introduction
1 West African Women Entrepreneurs in a Glocal World
Ulrike Schuerkens
2 Wealth Making in Marriage: Simbiat Abiola of Southwestern Nigeria, 1938-1992
Mutiat Titilope Oladejo
Part 2: Processes Linked to the Creation of Women Enterprises
3 Women's Home-Based Entrepreneurship in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Partnership Governance and Succession Planning
Haoua Badini Koné
4 Women’s “Invisible” Path to Empowerment in Cameroon: The Case of Digital Companies
Estelle Salla Bezanga
5 Analysis of the Motivations and Constraints of Pre-Existing Women's Groups in the Process of Creating a Collective Enterprise: The Case of the Creation of a Cooperative by a Women's Group in the West Region of Cameroon
Lolita Toche and Etienne St-Jean
6 The Auchan Brand in Senegal: A Source of Supply for Women Stallholders in Mbour – A Link to Working-Class Consumers
Paul Mamba Diedhiou
Part 3: Women Entrepreneurs and their Enterprises
7 Women Entrepreneurs in Senegal and the Wider Geographical Context of Africa and Europe
Ulrike Schuerkens
8 New Figures in Women's Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Dakar Women Entrepreneurs Between the Global and the Local in Digitalisation
Abdul-Aziz Dembélé
9 Relational Biographies of Women Social Entrepreneurs in Senegal
Sadio Ba Gning
10 Social Entrepreneurship in Dakar: Reasons for the Disaffiliation of Members of the Association of Women Seamstresses of the Marché Colobane (A.F.C.)
Aboubacar Diallo and Paul Mamba Diédhiou
Part 4: Women Entrepreneurs and New Challenges
11 Participatory Financing in Senegal and its Role in Financing Female Entrepreneurship:
An Empirical Case Study
Mamadou Ndione, Marie-José Scotto, and Hicham Sbai
12 Factors in the Success and Failure of Public Policies to Promote Female Entrepreneurship in Cameroon
Brigitte Audrey Ekodo Bekono
13 Women Entrepreneurs in Côte d'Ivoire's Philanthropic Landscape
Jean-Claude Kouadio
14 Business Sustainability Adoption by Ghanaian Women Entrepreneurs
Philomena Asante, Kathy-Ann Fletcher, and Sharon L. Forbes
Part 5: Concluding Remarks and Perspectives
15 Concluding Remarks and Perspectives
Ulrike Schuerkens
List of Contributors
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.3.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Research on African Economics |
| Zusatzinfo | 17 Tables, black and white; 10 Line drawings, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-79597-2 / 1032795972 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-79597-3 / 9781032795973 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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